By Mark T Lawrence, Founding Member of the CIPD's HR Analytics Group and Principal and Co-Founder of Growth Business Portal . Connect with him @MTLawrence or via LinkedIn . The exit of the UK from the European Union is a to...

By Max Blumberg , Founder, Blumberg Partnership
Leading on from People Analytics – Avoiding Project Failure: Part One , here I describe techniques for avoiding people analytics project failure due to poor correlations.
The People Metrics Definiti...

By Max Blumberg , Founder, Blumberg Partnership
People analytics is only effective when data collection is focused on achieving a particular management objective – yet despite this core concept of people analytics, many companies simply ana...

By Sam Hill, Managing Consultant and Founder of Workforce Dimensions.
With an appropriate people analytics strategy in place, organisations can transform their decision-making process. By connecting your people data to the organisation’s object...

By Ben Willmott , Head of Public Policy, CIPD
The term Human Capital Management (HCM) arouses strong feelings, amongst HR professionals at least! In one corner it represents an attempt to categorise people as mere widgets in a machine in order to understand how to minimise their costs. In the other corner (and I have to hold my hand up here) HCM is a means of trying to understand the value of the contribution that...

By Ann Francke, Chief Executive, Chartered Management Institute
Many CEOs will tell you that their people are their organisation’s biggest asset. It’s true. But what’s less often acknowledged is that they’re the asset that creates all the others. If a business has cutting-edge technology, valuable intellectual property, or an efficient factory, it is only as a result of astute decisions on human...

Retaining and nurturing talented individuals is a growing concern for many organisations, and the first step of highlighting the issue can be tricky. But once cleared, an organisation can soon take strides towards truly valuing their talent.
This week Oxford Economics and Unum reported findings from recent research that highlight the true cost of staff turnover to an organisation. Their report shows that the average...

By Edward Houghton, Research Adviser - Human Capital and Metrics, CIPD @EHoughtoncipd
From speaking to our members and the very many partners we work with at the CIPD, a theme I commonly encounter is one of the challenge of stepping beyond the reporting of data and in to the realm of business insight. What at first glance seems to be a simple enough exercise can be for many HR practitioners something which grows to...

By Edward Houghton, Research Adviser - Human Capital and Metrics, CIPD @EHoughtoncipd
Being a manger in any organisation today requires what many refer to as a sixth sense of leadership and management; an ability to recognise and capitalise on the abilities and skills of those whom they manage and seek out and maximise opportunities to their full potential. This is reflected in recent CIPD research investigating leadership...

By Dr Anthony Hesketh, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University Management School
One of the first conversations I have with any executive I first meet turns on the direction of travel of their people. By this I do not mean the extent to which they might be coming or going – although I will be coming back to this in a moment. I mean the direction of travel of the value of their talent.
It’s actually a more...